Chapter 302 05.0301: "The Power of the War Creation of the God of All Machines"
However, the Imperial Navy stipulates that the effective precision range of the Nova Cannon in void naval battles is 3000 kilometers.
But with the help of reconnaissance aircraft and destroyers, and the target is a precise fixed point with multiple calibrations, then launching at a longer distance is not an insurmountable challenge.
a few minutes ago.
"Nova Cannon, about to be loaded. Please have the Mechanical Priest give the final holy blessing and obtain permission to fire."
The machine spirit on the Thinker array chanted without any emotion.
"Praise be to the God of All Things, blessed by Om Messiah."
Several mechanical priests stood in front of various control panels, using their mechanical arms and the spider-like octopus-like prosthetic limbs and dendrites behind them to make the final precise adjustments to the Nova Cannon.
Dozens of heavy servitors towed a rail car along the track using steel cables.
Most of these mechanical creations, which consist of only a layer of human skin and brain wetware, are extremely powerful. The output power of each heavy-duty servitor can be called a humanoid tractor.
The railcar they were towing carried a huge shell about 50 meters long.
Amid the smoke of incense and steam, a consecrated four-claw crane bearing the emblem of the Mechanicus lifted the huge cannonball and loaded it into the barrel track, which looked like the door of a mythical giant to mortals.
Yes, the barrel of the Nova Cannon is actually a giant acceleration track rather than a truly closed barrel.
"Charging will begin soon. Warning, mortals, do not enter this door."
"The void shield is lowered to the lowest level, and the energy supply transmission is changed to inject into the Greatest and Greatest Ohm Messiah Creation."
The flickering void shield on the periphery of the Mars-class battlecruiser dimmed, almost disappearing, and then countless electric currents flowed along the cables into the body of this majestic war weapon.
Even the pipelines that stretched and tangled for several kilometers could not contain the growing blue plasma light inside.
"Boss! Boss! The fart spirit behind us said there was a blue light behind our butts!"
"Ok?"
A big guy ran to the tattered lookout post behind him and looked into the distance.
There was indeed a blue light in the distance, which seemed particularly bright in the dark void.
"What is that?" The big guy's small brain capacity could not give it an answer, and it scratched its bald forehead in confusion.
The entire bow of the Mars-class battlecruiser began to flow with dark blue plasma arcs.
The nova cannon under the plow-shaped bow was surrounded by powerful electrophoresis, and any living creature that approached it would end up being reduced to ashes.
The thick gun barrel hummed and vibrated.
"Charging progress... 93%, accelerating coil energy conduction, activation is about to be completed."
There was a sizzling sound.
The countless acceleration coils in the barrel of the Nova Cannon began to emit blue light, and countless lightning bolts crisscrossed and jumped in the barrel that looked like a road to the sky. The huge shell still lay quietly on it, and increasingly dense light raged on the surface of the shell.
"Pray to the God of All Things to guide the consecration to accurately bring down the divine punishment on the alien blasphemous creation."
"Charge 100%, aiming calibration completed, error ±0.01 void unit, such accuracy praises the blessing of the God of All Machines."
"Please ask the Mechanical Sage to grant the final permission to fire."
The sound of the machine soul echoed in the empty launch platform.
A mechanical sage, which had been modified to be extremely large and about three meters tall, came to the main control console with the cross-support of eight prosthetic legs.
He extended one of his prosthetic arms and inserted a golden gear skull key into the triple mechanically encrypted identification port.
"Launch permission has been obtained. Om Messiah's glory will live forever."
Sizzle——
After a stable electric field was formed in each coil, the shell in the barrel disappeared instantly at a speed that was unseen by the naked eye, making people wonder whether the huge monster was just an illusion.
The mechanical priests are no longer surprised by this, but the current flowing in the brain chip still shows a kind of fluctuation that mortals would call "excitement".
The huge recoil was transmitted along the adamantine keel, and the precisely calculated buffer system reduced it layer by layer. The captain had already prepared the power department in advance to provide force compensation with continuous maximum output power to offset the astonishing launch recoil.
But this still allowed the Mars-class battlecruiser to remain stationary in the relative coordinate system within the moment of launch, and fell behind the other ships.
Less than a second after launch.
In the distance, the entire minefield was instantly engulfed in a storm of explosions.
At first glance, it looked like someone inside the star fort had manually detonated the minefield.
However, the traitors in the Star Fortress were also confused and had no idea what was happening before their eyes.
The incoming green-skinned ships, along with the surrounding planetary defense ships, were all instantly reduced to ashes in the expanding and rolling plasma flames of the minefield, leaving no trace at all.
The route leading directly to the star fortress is clear and smooth.
The traitor commander in the Star Fortress command tower soon discovered this was not good, but he no longer had any mobile forces to deploy. The orbital defense platform near the minefield was also paralyzed by the huge explosion in an instant, and its energy system was unable to be loaded or aimed at this time.
The rebel planet's orbital defense commander roared and ordered the minelayers to leave the port in an attempt to lay emergency mines, but it was too late.
The Imperial Navy's vanguard frigate squadron took the lead, followed by a Moon-class cruiser that emerged from the darkness.
Following closely behind was a battlecruiser, and several light cruisers next to it also emerged from the void one after another.
The light spears and macro cannons accurately destroyed the minelayer on the blank minefield, blowing the ship and the anchor mines inside into pieces.
Upon seeing this, the commander of the rebel star fortress urgently ordered all the interceptors and bomber squadrons in the fortress to be dispatched in an attempt to intercept the Imperial Navy fleet that suddenly appeared and was waiting behind.
Enemy planes as small as mosquitoes and flies rushed out from the Star Fortress shuttle apron.
Their bodies bore blasphemous markings; these craft were not Furies or Starhawks, and the Planetary Governor was not entitled to these military assets, which belonged to the Imperial Navy.
As the Indefatigable sped forward, Air Commander Horatio used optical detection equipment and the air intelligence control system to identify the information of these blasphemous machines before the Dunyash fleet.
They are the Speedy Death Fighter and the Doomsday Fire Bomber.
Like the imperial names, these names also refer to this type of equipment.
The star fortress is huge in size, so there are quite a few fighter jets stationed in the hangar.
"Attention, all ships. The enemy aircraft group is approaching the fleet. We have detected that their aircraft types are Chaos rebels' Death Fighters and Doomsday Fire Bombers."
Horatio looked at the standby list on the aviation control desk.
He has a fully staffed air wing (Wings), totaling 96 aircraft.
There are two groups in one wing, with one aviation group on each of the left and right shuttle ramps.
A brigade consists of three squadrons, which are usually divided into three batches for takeoff and combat.
Each squadron consists of eight aircraft, divided into two flights of four aircraft.
In addition, there are 48 replacement fighters.
In terms of personnel replacement, pilots whose aircraft are damaged but not injured can quickly change aircraft and participate in the next round of attack sorties.
He could see that the Imperial Naval Air Force's organization was very American and not British enough.
Because the British-style Wings are below the Group.
Perhaps for some reason, in this world, the British Naval Aviation Force eventually withdrew from the stage of history.
Next, he switched to the hangar sound array system.
“This is the Aviation Department. The enemy planes are attacking fiercely. All squadrons are dispatched immediately.
Your mission is to first intercept as many enemy bombers as possible with missiles, and then the 335th Squadron will escort the Lord Daros, and the 217th Squadron will escort the Indefatigable.
The four squadrons of the Defiant class will assist you in killing the enemy fighters, but remember, your first priority is to kill the incoming bombers and protect the capital ships from being severely damaged."
Going all out was a desperate decision, which meant that the Indefatigable air force would have no air reserve available.
The order to shoot down bombers first may also result in many pilots being shot down by enemy fighters while performing their duties.
But this is the only solution, and it is the sacrifice that Hainan Airlines pilots must make.
Because the Gothic fleet was at the forefront of the combined fleet.
Leading the way was the Lord Daros, followed closely by the Indefatigable.
If they did not throw in all their chips now, the Indefatigable and Lord Daros would surely be attacked by a massive air raid and suffer heavy damage before they could even engage in formal combat.
The void shield cannot stop enemy planes from flying into the protective force field and dropping aerial bombs.
The battleship had no protection at all against the heavy melta bombs from a large number of carrier-based bombers and was like running naked.
By then, the number of deaths will be far greater than the number of HNA pilots sacrificed.
Soon, fighter formations from various ships were ejected from their launch ports, drawing graceful arcs, and then merged into a torrent, passing by the warships' portholes in an overwhelming manner.
The Karl-Dunjash fleet and the Gothic fleet sent out a furious interception brigade together to form a formation and rendezvous at the designated location.
The Indefatigable threw out all of its air wing, while the Defiant-class light cruisers retained a squadron of reserves on each side of the port side at the request of the flagship's air wing, which was Horatio.
The 50th Squadron of Karl-Duniyash following behind, like the Defiant-class, divided its carrier-based aircraft into two batches for deployment, with a squadron left on each shuttle apron as a rapid response force.
For a time, fighter jets from different batches on both sides, totaling nearly a thousand aircraft, confronted each other head-on, like two bolts of thunder heading towards each other, moving forward unstoppably.
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